FlashFire: SSD accelerator

Re: SSD accelerator

New name is FlashFire !
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flas ... message/49

 

Been contemplating flashfire/flashpoint for a few months. Tried various linux distros and they all hang up for 20 - 30 secs at a time with all the tweaks under the sun.

I reloaded with xp 3 days ago and installed flashfire. I will never go back! Its amazing this little unit performs amzingly now. Running full xp MSN and live mesh no hang ups at all. Thumbs up to the developer. I cant stress how much difference flashfire makes to this netbook its born again!!

if you have an ssd download it now!

I havent disabled any services removed any features or anything.

 

Will FlashFire do any good with my Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD drive with 180Mb/s write speed?

 

I tried FlashFire 0.99 on my AAO110 (1GB, 8GB SSD, Win XP, 3309 BIOS) and it definitely improved things. But when I flashed the BIOS to upgrade to 3310, the fan turned on high, got a brief BSOD, and then shut down. Subsequent boots ended the same way...got through about 30 secs then the fan kicked in and then shutdown. I ended up having to make a USB boot stick and reflash to 3309 and uninstall FF. Now I'm running 3310 w/o FF and will try to install it again unless there are others who have had the same issue.

UPDATE:
Reinstalled FF and have had only one BSOD incident after trying to play a short MPG video on WinDVD. After reboot, it has been fine and the video played normally. Also playback with no troubles using WMP.

 

Nope. This is only for the SLOW SSD's.

 

Hi, new to the forum - anyway I tried flashfire v9 on acer one xp sp3 and it made a noticable improvement (using it installed for over a month now on a samsung 16MB ssd) and all software is working fine.

ps if you want a fast linux distro I use xpud (its 51MB) and boots from the usb stick. The whole os and its apps seem to be all loaded into ram so the ssd isn't an issue here anyway

Cheers and thanks for the free s/w

 

hi

ive got a aoa110-Aw, 1,5gbram, 8gbssd SSDPAMM0008G1
bios inside v0,3310
running XP pro sp3
ive installed flashfire and ive got 40mb/s rate now , its not realy fast, but at least i dont get any hangup's
i am using it now for a month and all goes smooth

thank's a lot

 

Would there be any point for me to install the newer version over my old Flashpoint Beta2?

 

If you are happy with the older version, there is no point to change to the newer one.

 

I benched the current release of flashfire on my new SuperTalent ssd to see if it improved performance of an already fast ssd. I was totally blown away by the results...

Before...
Starting Batch Create File Bench...

48 MB; c:\test; 50331648 bytes; 2125 ms; 22.588 MB/s
52 MB; c:\test; 54525952 bytes; 2109 ms; 24.656 MB/s
56 MB; c:\test; 58720256 bytes; 2938 ms; 19.061 MB/s
60 MB; c:\test; 62914560 bytes; 2672 ms; 22.455 MB/s
64 MB; c:\test; 67108864 bytes; 2734 ms; 23.409 MB/s
68 MB; c:\test; 71303168 bytes; 2875 ms; 23.652 MB/s
72 MB; c:\test; 75497472 bytes; 2984 ms; 24.129 MB/s
76 MB; c:\test; 79691776 bytes; 3547 ms; 21.427 MB/s
80 MB; c:\test; 83886080 bytes; 3344 ms; 23.923 MB/s
84 MB; c:\test; 88080384 bytes; 3656 ms; 22.976 MB/s

Create Batch File Bench ended


and After...
Starting Batch Create File Bench...

48 MB; c:\test; 50331648 bytes; 547 ms; 87.751 MB/s
52 MB; c:\test; 54525952 bytes; 3906 ms; 13.313 MB/s
56 MB; c:\test; 58720256 bytes; 688 ms; 81.395 MB/s
60 MB; c:\test; 62914560 bytes; 1109 ms; 54.103 MB/s
64 MB; c:\test; 67108864 bytes; 953 ms; 67.156 MB/s
68 MB; c:\test; 71303168 bytes; 1656 ms; 41.063 MB/s
72 MB; c:\test; 75497472 bytes; 1578 ms; 45.627 MB/s
76 MB; c:\test; 79691776 bytes; 1609 ms; 47.234 MB/s
80 MB; c:\test; 83886080 bytes; 1906 ms; 41.973 MB/s
84 MB; c:\test; 88080384 bytes; 1859 ms; 45.186 MB/s

Create Batch File Bench ended



Very impressive. Keep up the good work!

 

Is there a version of FlashFire that will run on Mac OS X? (Wishful thinking I'm sure ;-)

 

Just installed and boot time cut in half! So far, so good!

Cheers,

Elroy

 

I've installed flashfire on my wifes aspireone 110 it works well, but if she wants to run defrag, defrag stopped. There are errors on the ssd, if i de-install flashfire she can run defrag proberly without errors.
She is running windows xp :evil:
Is it a bug or is there something wrong with the ssd

 

FYI, SSD's do not require defragmentation... Defrag is only for hardisks. Flashfire will indeed cause errors in the defrag application since it's write buffering. This is not a bug, nor an SSD problem. Again, defrag IS NOT needed on SSDs. Cheers.

 

Bought AAO110 for wife one year ago but rarely goto this forum to check driver for SSD but to day after visited this post and download the latest flashfire drive now the latency disappear and the AAO work like rocketer.

Thanks for the development you do a good job and keep tuning it.

 

Hi I have been running FlashFire for about 8 months and love it, a buddy is looking for a copy can someone provide the current link!

Thanks in advance!

Phil

 

Phil,

You can go to FlashFire's website and click on the Download link at the top.

http://flashfire.org/

 

Thanks I just emailed my buddy to find out his OS, the versions are different for XP or Vista.

Phil

 

Everytime I start my aa1 windows checkdisk runs, it says its deleted corrupted file errors and then starts xp, the computer is only around 6 months old, can anyone explain whats caused this? I'm running flashfire and i've got the pagefile on a sd memory card so it cant be the virtual memory wearing it out. will flash fire void my warranty? And if my ssd is kaput, what hdd can i replace it with?

Dazza

 

I'm in the same boat. I bought a ZG5 for my son last year for Christmas. It was so slow with XP Home that we have probably used the netbook 5 times since. I installed Linux on it trying to speed up the netbook and it helped a little. Recently I started researching the power problem and I was directed to this forum. I fixed that problem with bios update.

In that thread someone linked Flashfire so I tried it on a stock ZG5 with Windows 7 and it's like a totally new experience. Now I have a reason to use my netbbok.

Thanks to the Flashfire team for making such a great program. Now I'm happy I bought the netbook. lol